Laurence Sterne Quotes

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

You have to think with the heart.

For me, there is only love and fear.

I am emotionally strong, passionate, empathetic, and sensitive towards others, especially the people I love.

I do everything from my heart.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

No one is born with hate in their heart.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

But it is not reason that governs love.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.